Perpetuating the Hawaiian culture through education and healing.
10/24/2025
Beginning January 1, 2026, the Holistic Honu Wellness Center will be making a small adjustment to our service rates — the first in over a decade. Our one-hour services will change from $120 to $140, with all services priced equally across the board. This includes Lomilomi Massage, Kūkākūkā (healing talk story), and now, Dynamic Body Balancing.
We are also delighted to announce a powerful new addition to our healing team — Dr. Jennifer Tran, DC, a chiropractor specializing in Dynamic Body Balancing. Her skill and presence are a tremendous blessing, and she will be assisting me with some of our more complex cases while also seeing her own private clients here at the center.
Dynamic Body Balancing is an incredible hands-on approach that blends gentle touch, movement, and energy work to restore alignment and flow throughout the body. We are thrilled to offer this transformative work to our community.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Jennifer with open arms as we continue to grow and serve you with aloha.
10/13/2025
Our online booking code has changed to https://suzi-ko.square.site. To book to see Jonny, DM us. It's the fastest way to get on the calendar. 🗓️💻 Booking, Calendar, DM, Website
10/13/2025
🌺 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Message from Holistic Honu Wellness Center
Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a time to honor our resilience, existence, and sovereignty — to remember that we are the living breath of those who came before us and the foundation for those yet to come.
The contributions of Indigenous peoples to art, healing, literature, performance, and scholarship are immeasurable. Each creation — each chant, movement, and handmade work — is a living expression of our brilliance, joy, and endurance.
At the Holistic Honu Wellness Center, we celebrate the beauty, innovation, and cultural vitality that Indigenous peoples carry into every space we touch. Today and every day, we give thanks to our ancestors who dreamed of us, and to our communities who continue to shape a world rooted in balance, aloha, and collective healing.
May this day remind us that our stories are medicine, and our continued presence is a testament to the strength of our people.
ʻO wau nō me ke aloha,
Holistic Honu Wellness Center
09/29/2025
03/04/2025
Jonny Canhos will be back in the SF Bay Area and taking massage clients May 23, 24, 27, and 28. Send us an email or DM to book a session! 💆♂️📅
01/13/2025
Kumu Michael, Kumu , and will be traveling to in June to teach a few workshops. 🙏🏽🌺✈️ We are seeking donations of Delta Airlines miles to enable them to upgrade their seats so Maka has the space he needs to move a little on their flights 😇🙌🏽👍
12/03/2024
November 24, 2024, marked the Holistic Honu Wellness Center’s 20th Anniversary. Our open house highlighted the activities we do that are not massage related. We pounded kapa, printed canvas, made coconut drums and rattles, and explored Hawaiian poetry and wise sayings.
11/24/2024
As the last living founder of the Holistic Honu Wellness Center, I want to extend my deepest thanks and heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has tirelessly supported our organization over the past twenty years. From the generous organizations that provided us with spaces to grow, to the dedicated student volunteers and the esteemed Hawaiian masters who shared their profound knowledge—each of you has played an integral role in our journey.
If the past two decades have taught me anything, it is that we can not thrive without the kindness and consideration of others. Your presence, patronage, friendship, and wisdom have been the pillars supporting the Holistic Honu Wellness Center. We could not have persevered without your unwavering support.
It has been a true honor and blessing to serve you throughout these many years. Through your contributions, the vision and intent of our founders continue to be realized and fulfilled.
With deepest humility and respect,
ʻO wau nō me ke haʻahaʻa,
Leslie "Suzi" Kawaioni'okekai Kaiona'okalani Ko
11/21/2024
09/28/2024
This was completely unexpected! Thank you to everyone who voted for us!
08/22/2024
He's coming back! 🎉
For a limited time, Jonny Canhos will offer massage services at the Holistic Honu Wellness Center! 💆♂️
Book now to experience his energetic touch!
September 1st to 5th https://www.schedulicity.com/scheduling/HHWW9Q
Click "Services," then select the 50 or 80-Minute Massage with Jonny.
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Established November 24, 2004, in California, and approved for 501(c)3 status February 2006, the Holistic Honu Wellness Center is a not-for-profit dedicated to preserving and perpetuating the Hawaiian culture through education and healing. Our focus is to provide access and education of traditional Hawaiian cultural health practices to Native Hawaiians and the community as a whole. A goal extended in the spirit of compassion to all community members, regardless of ethnic or national origin, who seek opportunities to restore balance and harmony in their life.
Created from the vision of fifteen highly respected elders in Hilo, Hawaii as a way to assist Hawaiians away from home by providing a place knowledge and resources to connect, or in some cases, reconnect them to the richness of a culture that had become fragmented and traumatized with the advent of colonization and conquest. These elders were unique in that they lived during the time of the recognized Hawaiian Kingdom, spoke their mother tongue and lived a Hawaiian life. As such, this group represented the last living link to an enormously significant period for Hawaiians and Hawaii. Their upbringing coupled with their lives as healing practitioners during a century of tremendous change offered unique insight into what it was like to be a Hawaiian practitioner in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Over the next eight years, our founders and other native Hawaiian traditional healing elders in California and Hawaii shared personal histories including stories about what they lived through and what and how they were taught. Their accounts augmented and challenged our suppositions of healing, language, and history, and offered unique and valuable perspectives on what they saw happening in the world around them. Through their accounts, we were able to create a rough historical, educational model and develop introductory curricula for interested parties today.
Some of the cultural healing services and classes offered include, and are not limited to, ho'oponopono, lāʻau kāhea, lāʻau lapaʻau and lomilomi. Although our program focus targets Native Hawaiians, it is our long-standing policy that our services are made available to all in pursuit of education and healing.
Fees for education and services are offered according to a sliding scale, and culturally appropriate work is provided according to traditional protocols and the practice of hoʻokupu.
The majority of our work is with ethnically and or culturally disadvantaged individuals, and we are often called upon to ensure delivery of culturally appropriate health care and advance the “National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy” by providing appropriate interventions to address behavioral, social, and environmental determinants of health and ensure the delivery of a higher quality care to all the communities we serve.
